Fantastic Fest 2013 Photo Gallery
Sometimes it’s really hard for a photo project to emerge. After these pictures were held for their own use by two separate editors who later changed their minds, I bring you a long-delayed Fantastic...
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Sometimes it’s really hard for a photo project to emerge. After these pictures were held for their own use by two separate editors who later changed their minds, I bring you a long-delayed Fantastic...
When I called my credit card company to let them know I’d be traveling to Estonia and Latvia, I got a response I wasn’t expecting. “That’s nice. What country are those in?” “Um, those...
Ever since Fantastic Fest started in 2005, I’ve told everyone how amazing this sci-fi and horror film festival is. I’ve shared how much fun I’ve had, and how many friends I’ve made there. I’ve got a framed poster for the first year of the festival hanging in my hallway at home.
So it took me a long time to admit to myself how this had turned from a sweet little film festival with a bunch of film nerd folks, to what seemed like a gathering of the nerd juggalos at Fantastic Fest 2012.
If you are part of the film/ horror community, you are probably very aware that today is the opening day for the long-delayed release of the horror film You’re Next. While I was lucky...
The logic of dreams is its own kind of magic, following its own rules and associations. First you were one place, then something happened, and you were completely another place…then you were a turtle.
No matter how vivid and magical your dreams are, trying to explain your dreams to anyone else is daunting.
As you may have heard, the remake of the 1984 cult classic “Red Dawn” is a terrible film. Watching it isn’t worth the time and trouble it takes, and it makes me cry for the earth’s resources that were wasted in constructing this bomb. It’s currently in the theater, where name recognition alone may hoodwink innocent eyeballs into paying money to watch this confused mess.
Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas in September 2012. You all know that the movie CLOUD ATLAS opens today, yes? It’s all about time and souls and spirits who...
With the major craziness of the weekend of Fantastic Fest behind us, it’s time to look at what films you can–and should–still catch at the festival as of Tuesday afternoon. The films are listed...
Never mind the hella-awful Austin allergy forecast (which features the four icky horsemen of the achoopocalypse riding into town on their microscopic horses) …but today is the first day of Fantastic Fest, 2012. It’s...
Just before I was sucked into the movie madness of Fantastic Fest, I called my mother to let her know I wouldn’t be answering my phone much the next week. When I explained I’d...